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Word: happen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your story omitted to say that there are ten couples applying for each adoptable child, and that the Damerons happen to be among the nine out of ten families whose requests cannot be met. Like all reputable agencies, we must select the one home that is best suited for each child. Our obligation is first to the child for whom we are seeking a home, and this must take precedence over all other considerations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...post five miles away playing chess with his military aide, broke off the game briefly to intervene when he feared that his floor handlers might ineptly let the first ballot be taken Sunday morning instead of Saturday night. Warned experienced Old Pol Garcia: "You can never tell what will happen during twelve dark hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Here Comes Charley | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...Said he, in a statement unprecedented in tortured viewer-sponsor relations: "As a fight fan myself, I was incensed at the inept handling and bad timing. As general manager of Buick, I feel that a public apology is in order, and I assure those interested that this will not happen again on any public-service telecast sponsored by Buick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Bad Timing | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...Without Leers. How did it happen? Growls Harry Cohn, a 66-year-old professional ogre dubbed "White Fang" by Hollywood wits: "If you wanna bring me your wife or your aunt, we'll do the same for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Made | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...Then, every time they ask a question, she's desperately afraid of losing everything." Kim puts it this way: "I was good in my first picture and got wonderful reviews. I was afraid I might not be able to live up to it. I felt it could never happen again. Today I'm worried because I didn't enjoy it on the way up, and now maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Made | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

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